| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781426200960 | | Publisher: National Geographic Society | | Publish Date: 7/17/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203964706 | | Item#: RTVHQ3 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.75L x 0.5T | | Pages: 208 |
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| | | After laborious training and preparation, Kincaid and a group of botanists trek the Himalayas. Along the way she moves easily between closely observed, down-to-earth descriptions of the trek and larger musings about gardens, nature, seed gathering, home, and family.
| Author Bio| Jamaica Kincaid | | Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid retains her citizenship in her birthplace of Jamaica. She traveled to New York as a young woman to be an au pair, though she says she prefers the word "servant." She began to write for the "Village Voice", and then began writing stories. The material in her first book, "At the Bottom of the River", was published first in "The New Yorker", for which she became a regular writer. In 1985 she and her husband Allen Shawn moved to Vermont with their baby daughter to teach at Bennington College. Kincaid has also been an instructor at Harvard, but severed her connection with "The New Yorker" in the 1990s. |
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